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The SRT Viper can be quite a handful — we found that out again at the 2013 Best Driver’s Car competition. “While the nose was always stapled to the pavement,” we wrote about the Viper’s last-place finish, “the rear end liked to do all sorts of funny dances when you lifted off the throttle and went to the brakes.” New owners of the 2014 SRT Viper, however, might not have as much of an issue, as the automaker has announced the car will now come with a new Rain Mode.

Designed to be used by a driver who is still getting accustomed to the car’s capabilities, in the rain, or on cold roads, the Rain Mode will join the On and Off settings for the stability system; the GTS and TA also have Sport and Track settings.

SRT admits that the 640-hp Viper has been tuned to allow a little sideways fun, but “there are times when more aggressive intervention is desired or wanted.”

The 2014 SRT Viper now starts at $103,990 including the destination and gas guzzler fees. Billet Silver, the primary color on the Viper GTS-R racer, is now available as an exterior color, while GTS-R Blue replaces Shadow Blue Pearl. And for those who appreciate matte paint, the Viper GTS’ Anodized Carbon Special Edition package offers matte black paint.

“That Viper generates a lot of g’s,” said Randy Pobst about the car at the 2013 Best Driver’s Car competition. “In every direction. It accelerates hard. It stops hard. It corners hard. And most of the things it does are quite sudden, and it is a full-attention car to drive. You have to be on the ball, on top of that car all the time.”

It appears that new Viper owners afraid of sending their car into a ditch might get some help in the form of the Rain Mode, perhaps another minor example of how the Viper is very slowly becoming a more civilized sports car.